TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 111

Chapter 111 Will Spring Come?

Chapter 111 Will Spring Come?

The three people who seemed focused on warming themselves by the fire and eating were actually all pricking up their ears, listening for any movement from the tent, afraid of missing something.

After that one sound, there was no further noise. A few minutes later, Xie YunChuan finally led Luo Shuyou out of the tent.

The moment the tent was opened, the three guilty-conscienced people immediately straightened up. The Gu Tangxi sisters either busied themselves adding firewood to the blazing fire, or hastily rearranged her neatly categorized ingredients, just waiting to be washed and cooked.

Only Xu Yuze couldn’t find anything to do. He coughed pretentiously, sitting up straight and staring intently at the sparks rising from the fire, as if something fascinating was hidden in the flames.

Then, they heard Xie YunChuan ask, “What’s for breakfast?”

The three simultaneously looked up at Xie YunChuan, and the busy atmosphere suddenly froze. Gu Tangxi didn’t need to add firewood anymore, Gu Tangyue’s ingredients didn’t need rearranging anymore, and Xu Yuze’s sparks weren’t so interesting anymore.

Gu Tangxi exclaimed in great surprise, “Xie YunChuan, are you abusing our Shuyou? Why are you only giving him so little to wear? He’s still a child!”

Gu Tangyue also said accusingly, “I remember giving you enough clothes for two people, if you didn’t have enough, you could have asked me for more. Why didn’t you dress our Shuyou? Look how frozen he is, his eyes and nose are all red.”

…Actually, they were red from crying earlier, and had nothing to do with being cold.

Xu Yuze: “…!” How could these two sisters be so changeable? Just now they were saying how normal it was for young couples to be like that, and now they’ve so quickly put on the faces of old mothers, accusing Xie YunChuan of abusing their Shuyou? Women really are fickle creatures.

Also, weren’t they the ones who said how amazing Xie YunChuan was, how infatuated he was, how good he was to Luo Shuyou, that he was a rare good man and absolutely reliable?

The accusations they were spewing now didn’t sound like they were talking about the Xie YunChuan they admired!

Xu Yuze just smiled and said nothing. He felt that everything the Gu sisters had told him about Xie YunChuan and Luo Shuyou had to be re-evaluated from scratch. He couldn’t believe a single word. He should just observe more for himself.

Xie YunChuan glanced at them calmly and said, “Ask him yourselves.” After saying that, he sat down by the fire and started peeling and eating a sweet potato.

Luo Shuyou, like a wronged little wife, tiptoed to Xie YunChuan’s side and sat down. He snuggled close to him, whispering softly, “ChuanChuan, I’m really not cold. See, I’m not cold at all outside now, I don’t need to wear thick clothes.”

Xie YunChuan coolly looked at Gu Tangxi and Gu Tangyue, “Did you hear that?”

Gu Tangxi touched her head, Gu Tangyue wrung her hands. Gu Tangxi said, “Hey! We were just a little anxious! Concern makes you irrational, you have to understand.”

They were truly deceived by Luo Shuyou’s pitiful appearance. They actually thought that Xie YunChuan was abusing his little darling. It just goes to show, when your heart is biased, it’s hard to be fair and rational.

Gu Tangyue looked at Luo Shuyou kindly and asked gently, “Shuyou, do you really not feel cold at all?”

Luo Shuyou was happily poking at the fire with a small wooden stick. Hearing this, he stopped, looked at Gu Tangyue, and said seriously, “I’m not cold. Are you cold, Sister Xiaoyue? If you’re cold, come warm up by the fire!”

Gu Tangyue then asked Xu Yuze, “Do you feel cold?” Could it be that she was the only one suffering from the cold? Was she playing the role of a weak female supporting character? Then where was her blind male lead? No one here would pity or care for her!

Xu Yuze said objectively, “It is quite cold today.” Especially since the temperature suddenly dropped, not giving anyone time to adjust. It was normal to not be able to adapt immediately.

Gu Tangyue felt better. As long as she wasn’t the only one having a hard time.

The roasted sweet potato she ate earlier wasn’t enough. Gu Tangyue suddenly changed her mind and wanted to make sweet potato sticky rice. She just happened to have sweet potatoes and sticky rice in her space.

But she had never made it before. She thought she just needed to wash the sweet potatoes, peel them, cut them into chunks, and steam them with the sticky rice.

She asked the others, but, well, they were probably all born as young masters and young misses and didn’t know how to cook…

Then she could only do it the way she imagined. It didn’t matter, as long as the sweet potatoes were cooked and the rice was cooked, it didn’t matter if it didn’t look like the sweet potato sticky rice she had imagined. Anyway, everything tasted good in the end of the world.

Looking at the mountain forest, where the mist was getting thicker as the temperature rose with the passage of time, Gu Tangxi sighed, “Winter is coming unusually late this year!”

Xu Yuze, while helping Gu Tangyue peel sweet potatoes, chimed in, “Yeah, I just don’t know if spring will be delayed.”

Gu Tangyue, while rinsing the rice, said sadly, “Will there even be a spring?”

Gu Tangxi optimistically recited the familiar saying, “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”

Gu Tangyue: “Sister, that saying doesn’t apply here.” What seasonal climate of spring, summer, autumn, and winter? That wouldn’t work in the end of the world.

Xu Yuze smiled, “As long as there’s sunshine in your heart, it’s spring all year round. We just need to think positively.”

Everyone had their own things to do. Xie YunChuan fetched some water for them and then sat a few feet away from the fire, leaning against a tree, pretending to doze off. He didn’t join in on Gu Tangxi’s sentimental musings about autumn.

No one knew if he was really not cold being so far from the fire, or if he was just showing off. Gu Tangyue felt cold just looking at him.

Xie YunChuan really wasn’t cold. Maybe it was the influence of his ice ability and the Ice Crystal Soul. His body actually felt better in the cold winter, as if his inner and outer self had finally coordinated.

Luo Shuyou was having a great time playing with the fire. He didn’t mind being roasted so close to it. If Gu Tangxi wasn’t watching him and telling him to step back every now and then, he would have nearly poked his face into the flames.

Gu Tangyue saw that he had nothing to do and that he was about to burn up the small wooden stick he was using to poke the fire. So, she handed him a sweet potato, coaxing him, “Shuyou, come on, roast a sweet potato, a big sweet potato that’s fragrant and sweet.”

Luo Shuyou obediently took the sweet potato and examined it in his hand. He said with some distress, “But, Shuyou doesn’t eat sweet potatoes!”

They had no flavor. Shuyou didn’t want to eat them. ChuanChuan’s blood was better to drink. Anyway, ChuanChuan gave Shuyou blood to drink every day. Shuyou could drink a little less blood, but Shuyou didn’t want to eat these nasty things.

Gu Tangyue squatted down beside him, leaned close to him, and winked, “Shuyou doesn’t eat it, but Shuyou’s ChuanChuan brother will eat it. Honestly, Shuyou, did you make your darling boyfriend angry?”

Luo Shuyou denied, “You’re talking nonsense. ChuanChuan wouldn’t be angry with Shuyou. ChuanChuan is just tired. Shuyou has to be good and not disturb ChuanChuan’s rest.”

Gu Tangyue pulled back and sat up straight, “Alright then, if you don’t want to roast it, give it back to me. You’re not going to eat it anyway.” As she spoke, she reached out to take back the sweet potato in Luo Shuyou’s hand.

Luo Shuyou pulled his hand back, dodging her clutches, “No, Shuyou wants to roast it, it’s fun.”

Gu Tangyue said casually, “Alright, then roast it.” She was just giving it to him to play with. She was just teasing him.